Opinion: When stock-market smoke clears, marijuana profits may be in familiar hands
Uncategorized September 26, 2018
Investors may be betting on marijuana in all the wrong places. Enthusiasm for pot stocks reached a fever pitch last week when investors piled into British Columbia-based Tilray Inc., a developer of cannabis medicinal products, doubling its stock price over three trading days through Wednesday. Volume for Tilray’s stock... Read more
Three Kern County marijuana ballot measures to compete in November
CaliforniaUncategorized September 25, 2018
Depending on where you live, you may see two marijuana measures on your ballot or just one. Three initiatives by two citizens groups have qualified for the November Kern County ballot through signature drives that collected more signatures than 10 percent of the city and county’s voting population. Although... Read more
Outcomes vary for would-be Napa cannabis retailers
CaliforniaUncategorized September 25, 2018
One group hoping to launch Napa’s market for medical cannabis hopes to open its doors by year’s end. Meanwhile, another would-be seller is seeing more than three years of effort put on hold. In the 10 months since Napa opened a path for merchants to open medicinal marijuana dispensaries,... Read more
Restaurant finds itself in hot water for marijuana-lobster stunt
Uncategorized September 24, 2018
SOUTHWEST HARBOR, Maine (AP) — State health inspectors are investigating a Maine lobster restaurant that tried to mellow out lobsters with marijuana. The Portland Press Herald reports Charlotte’s Legendary Lobster Pound in Southwest Harbor remains open but has stopped allowing customers to request meat from lobsters sedated with marijuana.... Read more
Judge: California child can take cannabis drug to school
CaliforniaMedical MarijuanaUncategorized September 24, 2018
SANTA ROSA (AP) — A California kindergartner can keep bringing a cannabis-based drug used for emergency treatment of a rare form of epilepsy to her public school, a judge ruled Friday. The Santa Rosa Press-Democrat reported that a judge sided with the family of 5-year-old Brooke Adams. In this... Read more
Sonoma County says it’s shut down more than 600 illegal cannabis operators since last year
CaliforniaUncategorized September 24, 2018
Sonoma County on Friday touted its efforts to rein in unauthorized cannabis operations after facing criticism from some rural residents who say county officials haven’t done enough to shutter pot farms that don’t have permits. Since the start of last year, code enforcement staff members have forced more than... Read more
Martinez council leery about letting marijuana business operate in same building as ‘youth center’
CaliforniaMedical MarijuanaUncategorized September 24, 2018
MARTINEZ — Though most City Council members said Wednesday they’re OK with having a medical marijuana dispensary in town, they noted that putting one next to a gym visited primarily by children and teens may not be a great idea. The council postponed deciding whether to grant operating permits... Read more
Marijuana stock trading is dominated by dudes and millennials
CaliforniaUncategorized September 24, 2018
Marijuana stock trading is dominated by dudes. Men accounted for 75 percent of all cannabis-related securities trades over the past month, according to data from TD Ameritrade, the online broker with 11 million clients who hold more than $1 trillion in assets. At the end of last year, baby... Read more
CHICAGO (AP) — Marijuana’s main mind-altering ingredient was detected in nursing mothers’ breast milk in a small study that comes amid evidence that more U.S. women are using pot during pregnancy and afterward. Experts say the ingredient, THC, has chemical properties that could allow it to disrupt brain development... Read more
The mother of a Cathedral Catholic High School student was sentenced Friday to 11 years, eight months in state prison after admitting she had guided a teen to sell drugs to a network of other students. “It’s absolutely sickening to the court,” San Diego Superior Court Judge Timothy Walsh... Read more
